Transcribed from the 1913 Thomas J. Wise pamphlet by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. Many thanks to Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, UK, for kindly supplying the images from which this transcription was made.

THE KING'S WAKE AND OTHER BALLADS

BY GEORGE BORROW

LONDON: PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION 1913

THE KING'S WAKE

To-night is the night that the wake they hold, To the wake repair both young and old.

Proud Signelil she her mother address'd: "May I go watch along with the rest?"